It's always the uber conservative and over principled people who laugh about using PHP that have an opinion on everything while not knowing how to get shit done.

They're all just tools. You decide how to use them.

Sure but we can agree there's essentially two parallel industries in web development

Engineer at tech firms and WebShops writing WordPress plugins for single clients where Squarespace doesn't cut it.

Is AI another field of people or is it killing one or both of those. TBD